Rohrbach Library’s Voices & Choices Center
The Rorhbach Library presents the following exhibits in support of the Kutztown University Performing Artists Series.
September 3rd through October 5th 2007
‘New York minute’ is generally a reference to exceptional speed as demonstrated by the amount of time it takes to accelerate before the horn blows from a car behind you once the traffic light changes from red to green. Countless moments of incredible greatness have sped by in the history of New York City. Rohrbach Library’s Voices & Choices Center marks some of the special moments in time with a display of outsider art and memorabilia representative of NYC. A feature piece is a youthful and contemporary interpretation of the Statue of Liberty painted to mark the re-opening during its centennial celebration.
This exhibit supports the Kutztown University Performing Artists Series presentation of Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway.
Starting October 8th, 2007
Chicago, Illinois has a remarkable beginning as land and resources shared among allied first nations, Ottawa, Ojibwa and Potawatomi and later as a thriving trading post of a Haitian of African decent. The trading post becomes an outpost (Fort Dearborn), then returns to be a major U.S. trade center that is the geographical and ‘breadbasket’ heart of the country. The Chicago Board of Trade—now the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group—is the world’s first futures and options exchange. Presently, a preferred trade route leads to the gallery of the Voices & Choices Center in Rohrbach Library to meet the merchants and culture of the earliest Chicagoans featured in the exhibit there.
This exhibit supports the Kutztown University Performing Artists Series performance by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
1,000,006 bce (appearance) through 1886 (discovery)
and 1956 (the Mingus album) and today
Starting January 21st, 2008
Progress of humankind will be left to the artistic interpretations of Charlie Mingus and campus friends who contribute to a Voices & Choices Center ‘Community Art’ work. On display in the Lobby of Schaeffer Auditorium during the Mingus Big Band performance is an in-progress mixed media 4-panel mural created by any fearless visitor. Like its 1956 Mingus-opus namesake, the mural is meant to be improvisational, without structure and without theme—simply an artistic group expression. Your creative contribution to the work is anticipated.
This exhibit supports the Kutztown University Performing Artists Series appearance of Mingus Big Band.